Time's Up (Living Colour album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Time's Up
Type = studio
Artist = Living Colour


Released = August 20, 1990
Recorded = 1989 - 1990
Genre = Hard rock, heavy metal, funk metal
Length = 57:35
Label = Epic
Producer = Ed Stasium
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:dekbikp6bb39 link]
*Robert Christgau (A-) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=2082 link]
* "Rolling Stone" Rating|4|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/livingcolour/albums/album/129678/review/5941391/times_up link]
Last album = "Vivid"
(1988)
This album = "Time's Up"
(1990)
Next album = "Biscuits"
(1991)

"Time's Up" is the second album by Living Colour, released on August 20, 1990. It features a wide range of genres and also includes cameo appearances by Queen Latifah, Little Richard, Doug E. Fresh and James Earl Jones. After the album was released, it reached gold status, peaked at #13 on the "Billboard 200" and later won a Grammy for best hard rock album of the year. It is the last album to feature Muzz Skillings on bass. As of 2008, the album is out of print.

Track listing

Original

#"Time's Up"
#"History Lesson"
#"Pride"
#"Love Rears Its Ugly Head"
#"New Jack Theme"
#"Someone Like You"
#"Elvis Is Dead"
#"Type"
#"Information Overload"
#"Under Cover of Darkness"
#"Ology"
#"Fight the Fight"
#"Tag Team Partners"
#"Solace of You"
#"This Is the Life"

Banded Version

A special US advance promo version eliminating "History Lesson", "Ology" and "Tag Team Partners". Catalog number ESK 2171

#"Time's Up"
#"Pride"
#"Love Rears Its Ugly Head"
#"New Jack Theme"
#"Someone Like You"
#"Elvis Is Dead"
#"Type"
#"Information Overload"
#"Under Cover of Darkness"
#"Fight the Fight"
#"Solace of You"
#"This Is the Life"

2002 Re-release

#"Time's Up"
#"History Lesson"
#"Pride"
#"Love Rears Its Ugly Head"
#"New Jack Theme"
#"Someone Like You"
#"Elvis Is Dead"
#"Type"
#"Information Overload"
#"Under Cover of Darkness"
#"Ology"
#"Fight the Fight"
#"Tag Team Partners"
#"Solace of You"
#"This Is the Life"
#"Final Solution (Live)"
#"Middle Man (Live)"
#"Love Rears Its Ugly Head (Soul Power Mix)"

Personnel

* Corey Glover – vocals, rhythm guitar on "Type"
* Vernon Reid – guitar
* Muzz Skillings – bass
* Will Calhoun – drums
* John Aguto - assistant engineer
* Akbar Ali - strings
* Charles Burnham - strings
* Don Byron - clarinet, sax (Baritone)
* Greg Calbi - mastering
* Annette Daniels - vocals (bckgr)
* D.K. Dyson - Vocals (bckgr)
* Eileen Folson - strings
* Doug E. Fresh - percussion, vocals
* Alan Friedman - programming
* Lolly Grodner - assistant engineer
* Paul Hamingson - engineer, assistant engineer
* Mick Jagger - vocals (bckgr)
* Toshi Kubota - vocals (bckgr)
* Jeff Lippay - assistant engineer
* Little Richard - vocals
* Yubie Navas - vocals (bckgr)
* Maceo Parker - saxophone
* Queen Latifah - vocals
* Alva Rogers - vocals (bckgr)
* Rosa Russ - vocals (bckgr)
* Ed Stasium - producer, engineer, mixing
* Francine Stasium - vocals (bckgr)
* Lex Van Pieterson - photography
* Reggie Workman - strings
* Derin Young - vocals, vocals (bckgr)

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)